Warren claims voters mentioned they'd have backed her for president if she 'had a penis': Book

Cami Mondeaux

August 13, 01:43 PM August 13, 01:43 PM

In a forthcoming book detailing the ordeals of female candidates on the presidential campaign trail in 2020, then-prospect Elizabeth Warren exposed that several voters crudely informed her they would vote for her — but only if she was a person.

Those people sentiments echoed among the many voters, with quite a few telling marketing campaign workers for the Massachusetts senator that the place would “never have a lady president.”

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"'I misplaced it,' this organizer told me," wrote NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali in her guide Electable: Why The united states Has not Put a Woman in the White Residence … But. "But that was the vibe. Women of all ages and males alike, both equally as explicitly as that but also implicitly, would just say, 'Look, I feel it’s wonderful what you’re undertaking … but America — it’s just not gonna occur.'"

"Every person will come up to me and says, 'I would vote for you, if you had a penis,'" the e book estimates Warren as expressing.

The anecdotes emphasize a more substantial battle that Warren and other woman candidates experienced while vying for the Democratic nomination, according to the e book. And that battle was figuring out how to persuade the state to elect a girl.

“In the finish, she couldn’t,” Vitali wrote.

Warren’s ordeals mirrored identical arguments from Hillary Clinton when she ran as the Democratic presidential nominee towards previous President Donald Trump in 2016. Soon after getting rid of the election, Clinton pointed to sexism as a contributing component to her defeat.

Electable: Why The us Hasn't Place a Girl in the White House … But is established to be released on Aug. 23.